L'India Orientale. Descrittione geografica, & historica. (vol. 1:) Dove si tratta della parte intra Gangem contenente li regni soggetti all' Impero del Gran Mogol ... Con la confutatione dell'idolatie, superstitioni, & altri loro errori. (vol.2:) Dove si tratta della parte extra Gangem ...Rome, Felice Cesaretti, 1676. 2 volumes. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author by A. Clouet, many woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum, with a manuscript title on the spines, sprinkled edges.
by TOSI, Clemente (TONSUS, Clemens)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
t Goy, Netherlands
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
[8], 896, 58; [8], 927, [1] pp.Re-issue under a new title of the first edition of this extensive work on India, Southeast Asia and China, which was a originally printed in Rome, by Michele Hercole in 1669. The printer Felice Cesaretti only replaced the title and preliminaries. At the end of vol. 2 there is the original 'Registro' giving the sequence of the quires including the quires of the preliminaries, and with the imprint 'In Roma, per Michele Hercole. 1669', with a slip of paper with the year '1676' pasted over the original year. The Benedictine abbot Clemente Tosi (Tonsus) destined his huge work for the missionaries in India, continental Southeast Asia and China. It is a handbook designed to provide missionaries with background and arguments enough to confute idolatry, superstitions and 'errors' of the gentiles. The first volume treats India proper and is based on the Jesuit letter-books and on Manrique's work. The second volume deals with the continental countries from India eastward to southern China. The accounts on Arakan, Pegu, and Burma depend heavily on Manrique. His materials on China and Indochina were amplified by the publication at Rome, also in 1669, of an Italian translation of the account of the voyages made to eastern Asia in the early 1660's by the three French bishops sent there by Pope Alexander VII as vicars apostolic, written by François Pallu.Occasionally browned and foxed, overall in good condition.l Lach- & van der Kley III, p. 384.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Asher Rare Books (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 855FTMYD4ZB1
- Title
- L'India Orientale. Descrittione geografica, & historica. (vol. 1:) Dove si tratta della parte intra Gangem contenente li regni soggetti all' Impero del Gran Mogol ... Con la confutatione dell'idolatie, superstitioni, & altri loro errori. (vol.2:) Dove si tratta della parte extra Gangem ...Rome, Felice Cesaretti, 1676. 2 volumes. 4to. With the full-page portrait of the author by A. Clouet, many woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum, with a manuscript title on the spines, sprinkled edges.
- Author
- TOSI, Clemente (TONSUS, Clemens)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Keywords
- [9EE06DC76F16] ASIA|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [B168CF891AD9] China|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [2E35157B4164] India & Sri Lanka|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [840DBD7F7389] Southeast Asia|[0953FE2C125A] RELIGION & DEVOTION|[0953FE2C125A] RELIGION & DEVOTION -> [G21IZ5T5
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Asher Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Asher Rare Books
Biblio member since 2020
t Goy
About Asher Rare Books
Dealers in rare books and manuscripts since 1830. Located in 't Goy, near Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...